The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1887-06-01
HORSE NOTES.

-Ibe new wagon that poor pagaslls
pulled Ut Suffolk weighed but seventy
two pounds.
e. J. Baldwin's stable Of runners
nave reached louisville direct from
California.
,-California turfmen are agitating
the organization Of q Western Trotting
Association,
-Jack Phillips should Introduce
some ~specialties. such as double team
and saddle races.
w. w. Vansant's b. @. Merchant
vile was dead lame the day or the road
race at Suffolk,
walter Gratz lost recently at Mem
phis the 2.year-old bay colt Called
Back. by imported Highlander, out of
Alice Bruce.
The National Association OF T'rot-
ting Horse Breeders decides that Col
onel Wood is by Billy PatterHon and
not by Charley 3.
John Shepherd, OF Boston, adopted
q singular method Of selling De Barry.
He received sealed bids and agreed TO
sell to the highest. The horse went for
$4,000.
AT the Memphis track there are
live OF the produce Of the famous marc
Belle knight in training-Freeland,
freeman, Free Night, Long Night and
Unite.
jack Phillips has gone his annual
rounds Of the Suffolk Course fences
with the white. wash brush. and also
made some much needed repairs on the
grand stand.
The public wants to sec SQUARE
trotting at Point Breeze and will OK.
pect Messrs. Pawllng 81 Passmore as
proprietors to look to the interest Of
their patrons.
The Ives Pool bill has passed the
New York Assembly. but must yet 60
through tile Senate and receive the
signature Of the Governor before it can
become u law.
After seeing Banburg. Green B.
Morris eaid: "There's the best 3-year-
old | have seen In three years; l rave
seen nothing like him since Drake Car
ter was at his best as Il 3-year"old."
John S. Clark, of New Brunswick.
N. j., has offered r.. II. Shuts $500
for the produce OF Beatrice dam Of
Patron), who is in foal to Pancoast.
whether the foal be dead or alive.
The b. G. G.. D. S. (record 2.3Ol,
sired by Tattler, Jr., and owned by w.
NJ. Snyder and L. +. Klngsbury, Of
being logged by Lem Klngsbury.
The brown mare Astute, foaled
1880, by Tom Bowling, dam Crescent,
by Australian, died at B.. f., CockrilI'e
Richland Stud. Nashville, Tenn, while
foaling q colt to imported Saxon.
The Plttsbnrg Exposition Grounds,
ieccltly purchased by tho PcnnSylva.
MA Raiiroad Company, has bera leased
ny s. nurnbGr Of 9cntiemen WHO pro-
poie asin2 il IS Il goutlomeh'a drYvirg
course.
The judges stand vt iutfolE has
been moved SeYCr.. rods ur tho stretch.
It is now directly opposite the centre Of
the grand stand. The reporters stand,
not being robust enough to stand the
change, collapsed.
ID. D. Wlthers has sold hin famous
old c%ampaigner, Duplex, by Macar0on
or King Ernest, dam Echo, by Lexlng-
ton, to W. G. DAILY. Duplex is now
. years old. and has proved himself
one Of the best campaiguers Of the
day.
Lizzie Krepp, the 3-year-old FLY,
by King Alfonso, dam Troubadour's
Nouus liz Nv IuCHlphlo. Oub lbu ldh0u M
a cold while en- route from Mobile with
the rest Of Captain Browns string,
and pneumonia developed.
The horse distemper, or whatever
1t may be called, went the rounds Of
the various Southern tracks-or nearly
all OF thom-dGring the winter, and
while, perhaps, 1t was a tritie worse at
Memphis than at other points there is
hardly Il Vaata0a Of IL now. I"
--Trotting interests are ~livening up
at Suffolk. w. Van Valkenburg, Of
Ogdensburg, N. Y. has been there for
q week or two with about g dozen, and
w. 3. Morgan has b. &. Moulton (rec-
ord 2.3O), CHI. &. Billy Morris, Jr., and
q b.. f. by Alcyone. A Hunter, OF
Prescott, Ont, arrived on the Oath
nit with the b.. m. Little Vic, the
great ice champaignor, and w. T..
Pratt, Of Watertown. N. Y, has just
put In appearance with two,
fremont has again come to the
front rs a Suburban favorite. The
Bard holds his own, as does Bob Fisher
and Ben Ali, while Rataplan and
Guenn are strong. Sir Joseph has gone
back, and Blue Wing moved forward.
The position Of affairs in tho Kentucky
Darby is unchanged, except that Ban
bnrg's excellent showing at Memphis
has caused a nibbling at his chances.
Blue Wings recent Memphis perform
ance has made aim a hot favorite for
the Brooklyn Handicap, with hosts OF
takers. For the Withers the run on
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